Allen West punches back over attack ad

Rep. Allen West hit back Friday against an attack ad in which a caricature of the Florida Republican punches a senior citizen and middle-aged woman.

“Where is the outrage from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and the NAACP about this?” West said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” “They’re not going to say anything because they’re nothing but an effective wing of the Democrat party and they have effectively kept them well laced so they can continue to make sure that they have a black electorate voting bloc.”

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“West has socked it to seniors, voting to end Medicare as we know it,” the narrator says, as a smiling caricature of West, wearing boxing gloves in a ring, punches an elderly man. “He’s whacked women, with his votes for huge cuts in women’s health care funding,” the narrator continues, as the caricature punches a middle-aged woman.

In an email titled “Disgusting” and sent to supporters Thursday, West wrote: “The ad being run against me by my opponent’s family depicting violence against women and senior citizens is reprehensible. It plays on stereotypes and fear to divide Americans, and it cheapens the very real and tragic occurrences of violence against women and seniors.”

On Fox on Friday, West called out African-American political leaders for not coming to his defense, saying the media would be outraged if conservatives “ran a picture of a black Democrat politician or congressman punching white women and white seniors.”

According to FEC filings, American Sunrise has received just two donations: from Ibrahim Al-Rashid, a businessman from Miami, Fla., who donated $100,000; and Patrick Murphy’s father, Thomas Murphy, who donated $250,000.

Murphy campaign spokesman Anthony Kusich said in a statement to POLITICO that they “had nothing to do with the content or creation of this ad.”

“However,” the statement continued, “it is amazing to hear Allen West complain considering he recently called Social Security ‘slavery,’ said the President is trying to ‘enslave’ Americans, and told a female colleague she was ‘vile and despicable.’ Further, it is telling that West does not dispute the votes cited in the ad, including his vote to dismantle Medicare, open up the prescription drug donut hole, and against women’s healthcare and insurance coverage. He even voted against the Violence Against Women Act. His anti-senior and anti-woman record is clear.”

West campaign spokesman Tim Edson replied in a statement to POLITICO, “Patrick Murphy is completely embarrassing himself. Comparing his dishonest accounting of Congressman West’s votes to the tv ad that his family is running depicting violence against seniors and women, and refusing to condemn it is despicable. Patrick Murphy has set a new low bar for negative campaigning in American politics.”

This is actually a great idea, we should copy it and come out with an ad showing Obama beating up old white women. After all he stole half a billion dollars from Medicare; that sure was a slap in the face to seniors.

“They’re not going to say anything because they’re nothing but an effective wing of the Democrat party and they have effectively kept them well laced so they can continue to make sure that they have a black electorate voting bloc.”

so, West makes outlandish and offensive statements such as the one above (we're not going to count other offensive incidents/remarks) and wonders why no one is coming to his defense?!

West is the only Black male role model there is for Black children to look up to. He is not an affirmative action baby hiding his records like Obama. He is not an extortionist and/or liar like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Both of these so-called "men" are phony "pastors" in contrast to a man with real academic credentials in real academic subjects and a stellar career as a combat Army officer.

West will win again and then, finally, after decades of being led by phony hucksters maybe Blacks will start realizing that more Allan Wests are better than more Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons.

Liberals are so predictable. No one can say that if you were to insert a black democrat/liberal in this add instead of Allen West that there would not be a national firestorm. When Mitt Romney talked about Welfare Reform in an ad, the left accused him a blowing a dog whistle to his conservative base and accused him of racism. Now these same people are silent when someone who is not on their team gets attacked.

Now these same people are silent when someone who is not on their team gets attacked.

I'm sure you'd approve of black democrats backing Allen West in the face of a probably racist attack ad. I have no doubt you wouldn't mention how disgrace it is for blacks to place racial solidarity above all else.

This is definitely not a situation where however black democratic reply they will be attacked for being hypocrites by the right.